When Israel Stood Up to Washington

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 6, 2010 As U.S.-Israel tensions climb to unfamiliar heights, they recall a prior round of tensions nearly thirty years ago, when Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan were in charge. In contrast to Binyamin Netanyahu’s repeated apologies, Begin adopted a quite different approach. The sequence of events started with a statement […]

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Stop the Internet Takeover

Banks.  Auto companies.  Health care.  What will Washington take over next?  The Internet, if they can get away with it.  In fact, extreme left-wing ideologues and their allies at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are now considering a direct frontal assault on the Internet, reclassifying it as an old-fashioned regulated monopoly, like the Ma Bell-era […]

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House Majority to Clinton: Calm Down on Israel

More than 75 percent of Congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing support for Israel and demanding an end to the highly-publicized state of tensions with Israel. Signed by 327 Representatives, out of 435, the letter calls on Clinton and the Obama Administration […]

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President Obama and the Secret Deal to Kill Whales

Presidential Protection for Whales Recent U.S. presidents have had a record of protecting whales: President Reagan championed the global ban on commercial whaling in the early 1980s. The Clinton Administration strongly supported the creation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica. The Bush administration held the line against commercial whaling. During his campaign, President […]

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When Obama Meets Netanyahu

by Daniel Pipes March 22, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online  On learning that Barack Obama invited Binyamin Netanyahu to visit him on March 23, presumably to discuss such momentous topics as the timing of announcements of housing units in Jerusalem and urging him to make nice to the PLO’s Mahmoud Abbas, I can’t help […]

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Obamacare: It’s not over yet

By Amanda J. Reinecker On Tuesday, just 36 hours after the House of Representatives voted, President Obama signed into law the massive health care reform bill. Despite its tremendous policy flaws, its lack of bipartisan backing, its widespread public disapproval and its egregious constitutional inadequacies, Obamacare is now the law of the land. » The […]

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Sean Hannity: ‘If You Look Up the Dictionary Definition of Socialism, This Is It’

By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief (CNSNews.com) – In a preview of his book “Conservative Victory—Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda,” due to be released Monday, Sean Hannity said of the policies President Barack Obama has been pursuing: “If you look up the dictionary definition of socialism, this is it.”   Hannity made the observation in a video […]

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